Improvement in ironing-tables



E. M. KAHARL.

- momma-T BLE.- I No. 176,643; I "hun ed April 25, 1a7e 0, j EdganMffaN-PETERS, FHOTOJJTHOGRAPHEH, WASHINGTON D, C,

EDGAR M. KAHA'EL, 0E NEWTON, (UPPER FALLS,) AssIeNon To GEORGE H.STEDMAN, OF GAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS,

IMPROVEMENT IN lRONlNG-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 76,643., dated April25, 1876; application filed March 10, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

panying drawings, ot which Figure 1 is a top View, Fig. 2 a frontelevation, Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, and Figs. 4 and 5 end views,of one of my improved tables.

My invention relates to a table provided with a rotary and recessedhead, as hereinafter set forth; also, to an improved arrangement ofdiagonal braces with each pair of the table-legs, whereby sucli braces,by being extended beyond the legs, so asto he flush with the endsthereof, can rest 011 the floor and give additional stability to thetable. My invention also relates to a strut and spring, applied to oneof the pairs of legs, to throw saidpair outward and brace it inposition.

In such drawings, A denotes the table-top, provided with two sets, B Band G O, of legs hinged to it, as shown at a and b. To the upper end ofeach of the rearmost legs B B there is a tenon or projection, a, toenter, when the legs are turned out, a corresponding cavity or mortise,I), made in the top A, such tenons and mortises serving to steady thetable, and prevent strain on the hinges of the said legs' When the legsare turned out they stand in the positions as shown in theabove-mentioned figures, but when they are turned in or folded down theytake positions as represented in Fig. 6, which is an under-side view ofthe table with its legs so turned down. The outer set 0 O is held downagainst the tabletop by a turn-button, D, arranged as shown, when turnedacross a rung, 0, extending from one to the other of such legs.

Besides a pair of cross-bars, c d or e f, to

each set of the legs, and arranged therewith, as represented, there areto each of said sets two diagonal braces, g g, which cross one an; otherat their middles. Furthermore, each of such braces extends across andbeyond each leg, in manner as shown, until the lower end of the brace isbrought tlush with that of the leg, whereby the brace, when the leg isthrown out and resting on the floor, will also bear on the floor, andthereby aid in supporting the table thereon.

The longer pair of legs has pivoted to them a strut, E, provided with aspring, F, applied to it, so as to force the free end of the strutagainst the under side of the table-top. While the legs are in the actof being turned out the spring will force the strut into 'a cavity orcavities, It, in the said top. The spring and the strut, by theiraction, suftice to automatically throw out the legs 0 G, and hold themout.

Fixed to the under side of the tabletop are cross-pieces H I, arrangedand applied as shown, such serving to hold in place, in manner asrepresented, two press-boards, K L,

each of which has a tenon, 1, extended from into it, to receive thetenons of the pressboards. It also has a series of notches, O O, toreceive a spring, 19, fixed to the projection N, such spring, whensprung into either notch 0, serving therewith to hold the rotary headfrom revolving.

The said rotary head M enables the press. board, when projecting fromit, to be moved about in a circle, and adjusted therein in such positionor positions relatively to the tabletop as may be desirable.

In the above-described table, I claim as my invention as follows:

l. The table-top A, provided with the recessed rotary head M, andadapted to support the shirt and sleeve boards K L, arranged near oneend of it, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The table-top provided with the raised FFICE.

the latch p, all arranged and applied substantially as set forth.

3. The legs 0 (J, hinged to the table-top,

' 'and provided with the strut E and its actuat- B B O O, the diagonalbraces g 9, extended across and beyond them, substantially as set forth.

EDGAR M. KAHARL. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.

